Harvard

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Harvard
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Location:
Cambridge, MA
Current President or Coach Andrew Watkins
National championships 1995 ACF; 2010 NAQT Division I; 2008 NAQT Undergraduate; 2003 NAQT Undergraduate; 1998 NAQT Division II; 2000 NAQT Division II; 1995 College Bowl
NAQT Page link

Harvard is a large private university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It participates in ACF, mACF, and NAQT tournaments.

History

Jeff Johnson led Harvard to a series of successes in the second half of the nineties, retiring after their 3rd and 2nd place finishes in the 1997 ICT and ACF tournaments.

Harvard performed the notable feat of qualifying three teams for the 2000 NAQT ICT at nearby BU with a total of five players. (Harvard hosted the SCT and had very few people available). Two of the teams consisted of Jeff Johnson and Vik Vaz playing solo.

The club was quite large, sending as many as seven teams to local tournaments through the end of the nineties. A preciptious decline followed.

Vik Vaz, Dan Suzman, Jim Davis, and Frank Kelly won the ICT undergrad title in 2003. Harvard (Dan Suzman, Paco Brito, Jim Davis) returned to the undergrad final in 2004 before falling to Illinois. The same year, Harvard's Division II team (Sarah Watson, Noam Lerer, Eric Nielsen, Alexandra Helprin) finished third after losing in a tiebreaker. Harvard (Dan Suzman, Frank Kelly, Will Rooke) took third in the undergraduate division in 2005 after losing a tiebreaker to Carlton. In 2006, Harvard again qualified one undergrad team, which registered but couldn't be bothered to show up. People were rightfully pretty angry. But Harvard's all-freshman Division II team (Kyle Haddad-Fonda, Sam Lederer, John Lesieutre, Adam Hallowell) came on their own and took second place after falling to Stanford in the final. In 2007, Harvard's all-sophomore team (Kyle Haddad-Fonda, Julia Schlozman, John Lesieutre, Adam Hallowell) placed second after losing to Carlton in the undergraduate final. As juniors, that same team won the Undergraduate title at the 2008 ICT. In 2009, a Harvard undergraduate team consisting of Kyle Haddad-Fonda, Ted Gioia, Andy Watkins, and Dallas Simons defeated Minnesota in a tight two-game final to repeat as ICT undergraduate champions, also finishing in third place overall. The team of Andy Watkins, Dallas Simons, Dennis Sun, and Bruce Arthur followed this up with a DI win in 2010.

Tournaments

In addition to occasionally hosting ACF or NAQT tournaments, Harvard runs an annual high school tournament, the Harvard Fall Tournament. Previously, it held the packet-submission T Party invitational for several years, a tradition that will be revived in December 2008. The club also plans to host the Harvard Open in the spring of 2009.

Media Attention

In late 2008, the Harvard quizbowl team became the center of two articles by student journalist Christian B. Flow, who practiced and traveled with the team for a number of weeks. These articles were extremely well received by the Quiz Bowl community.

Former Players

Current Players

Title Succession

ACF Nationals Champion
Preceded by
Year
Succeeded by
Chicago
1995
Georgia Tech
NAQT ICT Division I Undergraduate Champion
Preceded by
Year
Succeeded by
Princeton
2003
Illinois
NAQT ICT Division I Undergraduate Champion
Preceded by
Year
Succeeded by
Carleton
2008
current
NAQT ICT Division II Champion
Preceded by
Year
Succeeded by
None
1998
Princeton
NAQT ICT Division II Champion
Preceded by
Year
Succeeded by
Princeton
2000
Pitt
NAQT ICT Division I Overall Champion
Preceded by
Year
Succeeded by
Chicago
2010
none

College Bowl Title Succession

College Bowl Nationals Champion
Preceded by
Year
Succeeded by
Chicago
1995
Michigan

Unofficial title succession

ACF Nationals Undergraduate Champion
Preceded by
Year
Succeeded by
Princeton
2003, 2004, 2005
Chicago
ACF Nationals Division II Champion
Preceded by
Year
Succeeded by
Carleton
1998
Arkansas
ACF Nationals Division II Champion
Preceded by
Year
Succeeded by
Princeton
2004
Chicago

External Links

Official Website